[tor-relays] response to zimmer family hitting max descriptor size

Hi, re. # Questions & Answers * Q: zimmer family hitting max descriptor size https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40837 Any news on a possible solution to this ongoing issue? tl;dr: more powerful relays rather than large numbers of them. *Please note I have very little idea

[tor-relays] Correction to Good Bad ISPs, UK

Hi, This is probably the wrong place but here is a minor update to the Good / Bad ISPs page: http://xmrhfasfg5suueegrnc4gsgyi2tyclcy5oz7f5drnrodmdtob6t2ioyd.onion/relay/community-resources/good-bad-isps/index.html The company HostWorld in the UK does allow guard and middle relays but just

[tor-relays] Money for relay operators and email addresses

tl;dr: Paying relay operators - yes, once it's decided how to share out the money. Requiring valid email addresses - yes. imo s. It goes against the purely altruistic bit of me to say this but I definitely see the advantage of paying relay operators. I run one pretty powerful relay on a

[tor-relays] Setting a relay as an HSDirectory?

Hi all, Thanks for the last answers, it's all running nicely now. Now I want to set the relay to act as a Hidden Services Directory as well and reading the torrc file I'm not sure how to do it. Do I just uncomment the lines 10 and 11 of the extract below? Or just line 10? Or lines 10, 11,

[tor-relays] New relay questions

Hi Relay Operators, I am trying to run a non exit relay for the first time and have some questions: FYI, I have 2 virtual CPU s and 1.256 GB RAM with ‘unlimited’ bandwidth on a rented VPS running Debian 11. The logs report success and the Relay Search shows my relay (Nickname: code9nRelay)